Randomness Inc.

It’s been a good run… A noble effort, a valiant fight.  Yet all good things must come to an end.  Seeing as the usual half-life of my projects is about a millisecond, this has been a pretty darn good run.  Yes.  This is it.  The obligatory apologetic blog telling you imaginary people out there that I am done.  Through… finished. Hasta. Pasta.

To be fair, it was nothing you did… (you really haven’t done that much, actually, so I suppose it’s partially the nothing you’ve done).  Really, it is the fact that you seem to have cursed my life to the point where any computer I use will die (of course the logical thing to do is blame you).  For example, I got my first laptop and it ran smoothly and well.  I kept it clean and nice but one day unexpectedly it died.  By that time it was two years old, so I mourned its passing yet knew it was its time.  But then I got a new laptop.  A young, smaller, sleeker version of my last laptop.  I decided to go for an ultraportable lappy, much to my chagrin, however, this ended in the way most things in my life seem to end, too quickly.  A burst of light and baboom, the little tyke of a compy would no longer boot up (last time I get a GD Asus….)  So there I was… pondering… thinking… mulling it over… when it hit me.  I’d only had the computer for 20 days.  Hey… I could get a refund off of Amazon.com.  Score.  Yahtzee.  Mauzeltauff (correct spelling is for nazis.)

So I’ve sent my little lone lappy to amazon.com so I can hopefully get a full refund for the POS netbook they sent me.  I’m not bitter… Actually, I’m pretty happy, because their customer service was pretty darn good and polite.  I’ll be content with 85%… but hopefully i get more.

All this to say, I no longer have ready access to a computer, and, quite frankly, computers are overrated anyways.  I’d much rather be doing something with my life… like… exercising (lol) (ya right) (rofl).  Basically I’ve decided that with my current track record with computers (literally every single one I touch turns to proverbial dust), it would probably be in my best interest to stop throwing money into them.  Electronics are fickle, and they are pretty much the worst investments ever as far as depreciation of value goes.  So (because I’m really money conscious right now), I’ve decided to instead by (lol this is where i actually wrote “by” instead of “buy”… oh the irony) a PS3… that way It will be impervious to my electrokillosis.

Perhaps I’ll find a way to get back on here every once in a blue moon… I’m sorry babe… you’ve been my best online experience yet (apart from the first time I saw the numa numa guy…)  It saddens me that we have to end like this… I’ll be back… R.inc will go on.

This here is a tribute to the greatest president of my lifetime.  A man who carried himself with great dignity, humility, and upright character.  A man who, not even a year into his presidency, was thrown into a tragedy that would define the rest of his presidency.  He chose a path that would bode great conflict domestically and abroad; a path that was the right path to take.

A great thing about this president is that not only did he make the right decisions and do what was right for our country, he did it whilst being criticized by the mass media and many politicians.  He was not well loved coming out of his presidency, but now that the dust has settled from the dirt clods hurled at him from all sides, people are starting to realize that “Hey, we didn’t have it so bad after all.”  No, we didn’t have it so bad, we had it pretty darn good.  Was he perfect?  Nope.  Did he make some mistakes? Of course.  But did he own up to those mistakes and take the blame like a man?  YES.  Time may remember him for his lack-luster speaking skills, or it may remember him for his great policies and how he kept Americans safe, it’s up in the air.  I will do my part to make sure a few people remember him for what he truly was, a strong leader and a great man.

I’m talking about one George W. Bush.  A president that people may one day recognize as a great man and president.  A president that perhaps people will stop blaming for their problems (my sons a brat, it’s Bush’s fault!). A president that tried to move away from big government, all while dealing with terrorist threats and appeasing the Left.   A real president of the REAL U.S.A.

It’s about time we see the same from our present administration.

Obama pardoned a turkey named Courage* this year.  Well Obama, you promised change, and i think it’s about time a Chicken was pardoned.  Why are you hating on the chickens of the world?  They deserve equal rights as the turkey.  I think that we should pay the chickens a few billion dollars (for fowl treatment of them) and close Chick Fil A for good.  It’s simply time for equal standing with chickens and turkeys alike, and if we can’t bring chickens up to the level of turkeys by glory we’ll bring turkeys down to the level of chickens.

-PETA

*Ok this is off topic… but seriously?  Can you do anything that isn’t so fricken serious with underlying messages?  You’re making my head hurt (and it’s not from the wittiness of your messages). And now that i’m finished with that little rant, looking back at my post I am filled with a great sense of irony…

How can we definitively say when life begins?  That’s a question that has plagued society for a long time now… and i address it and ask, can we really answer that?

Ok… so i’ve been thinking about abortion and christian viewpoints and atheistic viewpoints, so i tried to take the middle ground and look at it objectively without being influenced by my worldview. (note that this is concerning times when the mother’s life isn’t in danger, and when it’s not a rape victim, because those are HUGE topics… as is this… but anyways)

I believe that we all think murder is wrong. I also firmly believe we don’t KNOW when live begins or when it doesn’t begin.

So along these lines, no matter if you are christian or atheist, since we can’t definitively say when life begins, it would be best to err on the side of inerrency. Eliminating abortion would therefore make it so that there is no CHANCE we’re committing murder, something that is outlawed in every state, and in most of the world.

My belief that we don’t know when life begins comes from these facts:
a. because of genetics, we could take a bunch of fetuses and lay them together, then test them, and we’d know which species they belong to. SO since we could definitively tell that that baby IS human, no matter HOW it looks, then we can’t say it’s alive or not.

I’d say that atheists should be MORE against abortion than christians, and here’s why: Christians believe that we have a soul. The soul is what defines us, makes us “living” beings. SO we don’t know if you have a soul before birth. But Atheists don’t believe that we have a soul (most, at least), therefore, since something is human, they should be against it being killed.

Interesting thought at least… let me know what you think

*Edit* 11-27-09

And i just thought about another thing. Someone told me the other day that the only thing that think is wrong with killing people is the ties to other people in the world they have, which is just ridiculous.

For example, let’s say that someone has lost everyone in his family, no one knows him and he’s all alone, but not unhappy (like a Robinson Crusoe situation). So by their argument anyone could kill them if they wanted… but no one would think that’s right, so they would have to say that there is more to it as well, that humans have thoughts and feelings. But babies do have physical feelings, and as far as thought goes, thought would imply a mind, and if we don’t always have a mind then the mind must be separate from our body, which would therefore mean the mind is our soul (atypically mind and soul are considered the same, when thought of as separate from the body). And without the supernatural we couldn’t have a soul… so basically if you’re atheist your going to have to accept my first argument, that babies are living… or you can accept that we have a soul separate from our bodies… you decide

I am tired of today’s society.  Never before has there been a society so full to the brim with selfish people looking for immediate gratification… what ever happened to charity and giving expecting nothing in return?

What happened to modesty, and integrity?  Honesty, philanthropy, and a sense of community?  There were days when people knew their neighbors, and perhaps they could trust them and even go next door to borrow some sugar, but those days are gone.  Now we have a society of ingrates, unappreciative of the sacrifices the last generations have made for our well-being.  We strive to change our nation and take away what makes it different and unique. We want to be like other countries, spreading the wealth and punishing people for success, and quite frankly, i’m sick of it.  It doesn’t take a genius to see that those beliefs are archaic, and unacceptable in our age.

It’s time for people to wake up, and realize that YES, we ARE all equal, and money does NOT make anyone better than another person.  You can’t put a price on life, so we can’t say how much someone is worth in dollars and cents, it’s just sickening.

However, we don’t all make the same amounts of money, and we don’t all do the same thing.  In our country we have the opportunity to change our stripes and work extra hard to end up succeeding like the rich people today, but most people aren’t willing to put the effort required into their work.  It’s not a big deal, if you gave up 10 years of your life to make 40 million dollars that you rarely have enough time to actually enjoy, and only manifests itself in expensive foods and housing, then more power to you.  I hope you’re happy.  Myself, I’m willing to make sacrifices so that i can delay immediate gratification, but i’m not willing to sacrifice my life and youth for that.

In a time when everyone wants to be nonconformists, there is a dreadful amount of conformism going around.  Everyone must wear name brand clothes, the newest fashions and drive the newest model cars.  You need to go to college and get a degree and wife/husband so you can live happily ever after.  THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST DO TO BE HAPPY.  Hybrids are a sign that you are environmentally friendly.  You MUST protect the environment and value it above your own life or even that of your family.  Perhaps we’re not there yet… but just you wait.  Buy this and you’ll get be more attractive, that will make you HAPPY.  hAPPy hapPY HapPy.

You know what, everyone’s looking for happiness, i’ll tell you how to find happiness, it’s a simple thought, and it’s older than the hills.  Be CONTENT with what you have and where you are.  Stop and smell the roses.  Get rid of the clutter in your life.  It’s time to remove stressful things from your life.  Turn off the T.V. and throw your electronics out the window.  Stop texting all the time, it’s really not that cool.  GET OFF FACEBOOK.

Now as far as the government goes, i’d love to change myself from Republican to Independent, but if there’s one thing i can’t stand, it’s my personal decisions given a political slant by a party.  I want to avoid party politics, not fuel them.  People are raving about how the GOP is dying and blah blah blah, the GOP may be dying, but the democratic party is shriveling up along side of it.  Party politics are DISGUSTING.  Ya, perhaps the Republican party shares some of the same values i do, a good amount of the Republican people i would end up voting for (*cough* McCain *cough*) are almost as bad *cough* McCain *cough* (sometimes worse) than the alternative… for that reason, i would like to be a moderately conservative Independent…. but i just. cant. do. that.

You know what?  I’m a happy person, and the beautiful thing about politics is that no matter what happens to our country, and how i see people collectively flushing our freedom and uniqueness down the toilet, I will remain pretty darn content.

Here is what i believe the U.S. should do (and there are a lot of beliefs out there people, i’m sure mine are not flawless).  Instead of increasing government spending with the intent to get us out of debt, lets cut governmental spending AND taxing to the bare minimum.  No more bailouts, no more stimulus packages, no more bouncy castles for disaster victims.  It’s time to rely on the charity of good people to help out others, and believe me, when you don’t rely on the government to pay for your life, people will either buck up and do what they have to do, or starve.  And for those people who really truly can’t do anything, then it’s the job of their community (it takes a village… right? <— i hate it when you want to do a smiley in parentheses]  to help them out.  Legalize marijuana, and let business owners decide whether to allow smoking in their establishments.

People are begging us to get our troops out of Iraq, and basically no one appreciates the U.S. anymore, so let’s do it.  Get our troops out of foreign countries where we are no longer welcome.   IT’s time to stop policing the world and start policing our nation and getting the stick out of our own eye.

CUT spending.  CUT CUT CUT.  It’s time to realize people can live off of less, and so can our government.  Nuff said.

Kick the bums out of office, it’s time to clean house.

Start encouraging progress and competition instead of discouraging it by punishing people who make money and run businesses.

Reform the school system so that teachers are encouraged to work hard. Offer vouchers to parents wishing to school their children privately (which in turn would make public schools strive to be more competitive).

Things for groups to think about:

Christians:  stop fighting to bring christ “back” into schools, i don’t think teachers of today should be trusted to teach about deep philosophical truths and questions of supernatural nature when they barely understand math.

Atheists: take the chip off your shoulders and realize that us true christians are not trying to control you or tell you what to do.  You are free to do whatever you please just so long as it doesn’t effect other peoples’ well-being.

Media: stop being ridiculous.

Texting: (i want to put this some way texting can understand)… crl up and die plz lol

Political Parties: think about the country for once, instead of yourselves.

Liberals: Realize that right now equality is doing pretty darn good in this country, and yes, a good amount of that is due to you.  Also realize that an equal amount of the trouble we’re in right now can be put on your shoulders.

Conservatives: Yes… you are strong in your morals, but realize you (we) don’t understand everything about how the world works.  It’s time to listen to what democrats and liberals have to say, and try to see it their way.  Also realize that an equal share of our troubles can be put on your shoulders.

Nazis, hate mongers, bigots, racists, and Reverend Wright: please find your way to a Dharma initiative recruiting office ASAP, so you can be sent to an island that travels around and has a big scary monster thing on it.

EMOs: grow up.

Bloggers:  lol… nobody really cares (most of what i write is for my own entertainment).

Socialists: Please realize that the U.S. is one of the last free countries in the world, and that as such we offer actual potential to our inhabitants.  If you do not like this, i suggest you make great haste to France, or another country of that nature.

Nobel Peace Prize Giver-outers:  really?  o.O

ANYWAYS, i’m done ranting… kinda all steamed out.  If you’ve read this far, i applaud you.  1337 words of sheer brilliance.

So evidently having your computer blow up isn’t all that bad for your life.  I’ve started playing the guitar again, and I actually realized today I’m not even half bad at it… However, i have a ton of work to do to become really good… so i’m kinda looking forward to my new time of uncomputeredness.

I really want to buy a hookah… the hookah i’m looking at getting now is the ballerina 28″.  Not sure what the website is that i was looking at it on, but it looks amazing.  On a random note, i hear that they are thinking of outlawing tobacco that is of any other flavor than menthol.  That would be sheer insanity… Talk about pointless laws.  What purpose could that possibly serve?

I hate pointless laws, and boy are there some doosies out there these days…. all that more laws serve to do is take away little slices of freedom.  GRRR…  oh well.  it’s fine.

You know… I’m not the brightest guy in the world.  Obviously.  So there are a few things i just don’t understand, who sparticus was in Sparticus, for example, how babies are made, and other various things.  But more than anything else, i don’t understand how letting the government run our health care here in the U.S. would be beneficial.  I mean, look at the USPS, the schools, and Amtrack.  Huh…. but i guess other people know best.  They have universal health care in Canada, so i guess the only way to know how it works would be to ask a Canadian.

How’s the healthcare up there in Canada McSqweez?

P.S. I’m SPARTICUS!!!

Tonight I’ve decided not to sleep… instead i will stay up eating pizza, drinking protein shakes, watching South Park and old trippy creepy cartoons.  Its gonna be the shizzle.  So for the next while whenever i get bored i’ll probably pop out some poems or whatever.  It will own.

So I haven’t really been able to be my nice bloggy self of late, mostly due to the fact that me and my roomies are cheapskates, so we don’t want to pay 60 dollars a month for internet (isn’t that ridiculously expensive?).  So of course we simply use our neighbors open wireless network.  The only problem is that their wireless works whenever you don’t need it to.  so now that i actually need the internet to function, it isn’t working anymore.  Therefore, i find myself seated in a nearby grocery store, which is possibly the best grocery store in the world.  My friends say it’s expensive (but they’re full of crap).  It has great deals and looks awesome (probably why they think it’s expensive).  But if I, a poor college student, can afford it, believe me, anyone can.

And wow, i guess Pres. Obama got the nobel peace prize.  congratulations Monsieur Obama, i am happy for him that he was honored in this way.  The only thing is, let’s face it, Pres. Obama really hasn’t done anything yet to deserve this honor.  However, let’s look at some stats of Obama’s presidency, just for kicks.
– Five foreign trips made

– 14 countries visited

– 25 days spent outside the United States

– 48,620 miles logged

Gimme your thoughts… I want your brain *hungry look*.

My fair leaders, today i bear heavy news of consternation.  IT would seem that 5uperman has died.  “What happened!?!?!” some may say.  “Kryptonite,” others may say, while a knowing look glazes over their face, coupled with a scent of nostalgia oozing from their pores (now that’s a word picture).

(btw… skip the fluff here, just skip to the second to last paragraph… it pretty much ties it all together.)

Well, strangely enough it would seem that mr. Luther has finally defeated his long-time enemy, albeit at a heavy price.  The billionaire boy finally stumbled into his way to defeat superman one day, when he was playing with some kryptonite shards (he decided to always keep two or three handy lest superman decided to ambush him).

Consequently he was juggling them when a strange feeling came over him.  It was something that (being a super villain) he had never felt before.  Something welled up deep inside his throat and “boom” he coughed (at that very moment madagascar closed its borders –very few people will get that joke–).  He was taken aback, and for that reason he forgot to pay attention to a kryptonite shard.

It plummeted down his throat before he could spell e-n-c-e-p-h-a-l-i-t-i-s, and in typical textbook (or in this case comic-book) style a look of surprise came over him, and then nothing.  He was fine… for now.

What lex didn’t know was that deep inside his bowels kryptonite was mixing with his slight case of the flu (screams of terror… Detroit burns as riots break out at the very mentioning of the word “flu”) to form a more SINISTER form of the flu… KRYPT-FLU… e.g., get this flu you’ll end up in a crypt.

Of course push came to shove, it turned into a pandemic, and the whole earth burned.  Superman returned from his annual vacation on mars to find the world in shambles, and to also find out that he can be infected by this strange strain of the flu.  Everyone in the world (except madagascar) suffered a horrible fate.

All that to say, don’t you miss when the flu was JUST the flu?  I miss those days; don’t know about you guys.  But now it seems like the regular run of the mill “Flu” isn’t bad enough, now it has to be the Swine fLu, or avian flu, or FLYing flu.  And of course if you are so unlucky to get the old flu, or even a slight cold, everyone will eyeball you and act like your the destroyer of nations or something.  Of course H1N1 is barely different than the average run of the mill flu, but people are worried about it all the same.  One thing that is enjoyable about the new flu is the people wearing the dust masks to protect themselves.  It’s great to see people so concerned about themselves they will throw into the wind all caution at the fact that they look ridiculous, and are probably barely decreasing the chances of getting the flu.

Taking note that i should have ended there, I actually heard someone say that the swine flu was created by the government to target ethnic groups.  Which actually makes a LOT of sense kk k kk kk <—(have you ever wondered what all the k’s mean when people do that?) .  I mean, it would serve a great purpose to the government… to do that (kill off ethnic groups is the topic i’m on atm).  You know what, the person who wrote that (ethnic thing) deserves to be an author on R.INk.   Whoever you are, you are the kind of person who makes my life so much more entertaining and amusing… thank you sir… thank you. ^^   <—(odd smiley that’s supposed to be cute.)

-mullet-

As this new day turns, it brings with it the winds of change.  Unfortunately, as we can see often times, change doesn’t necessarily bode something good.  In this case, today is the day that many years ago my tiny baby form popped out.  However, it would seem that today brings with it something that i am not quite so stoked about.  Judging by the stars, today is the day the ancient Aztecs predicted billions of years ago.  The stars have aligned, and today is Universal PMS day.  There is no avoiding it, although it may not be the end of the world, it definitely doesn’t bode well for us Men-folk.  It seems like the problems just keep piling up, and there is just no way of avoiding them.  Perhaps the solution for today is to spend more and more money on “our” (no ownership or sexism intended) women, but who knows?  Will that really help us mens’ pocket books?  Probably not, but it may just jump start our economy and keep the female population content.